Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas

Portada
Cornell University Press, 1995 - 292 páginas
A historical account of the berdache--biological men who performed the offices and work of women, including sexual service--in Europe and America at the time of the Conquest. Trexler examines the sexual culture of both early modern Iberia and the native American world of that era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Backgrounds
1
Iberian Experiences
2
Contents
26
The Military and Diplomatic Berdache
64
Becoming
82
The Religious Berdache
102
On the Ground
118
Attitudes and Assessments
141
Bibliography Index ix X X xi 1
207
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64
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238

Yesterday and Today
173
Notes
180

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